Posted on 11/08/2025 3:10:02 AM PST by fwdude
After publishing for more than two centuries, Farmers’ Almanac will release its final edition in 2026, according to the Associated Press. The decision was announced Thursday by the Maine-based publication, which first printed in 1818.
“It is with a heavy heart,” Editor Sandi Duncan said in a statement, “that we share the end of what has not only been an annual tradition in millions of homes and hearths for hundreds of years, but also a way of life, an inspiration for many who realize the wisdom of generations past is the key to the generations of the future.”
Publishers cited the ongoing financial problems with producing and distributing the book in the current “chaotic media environment” as the cause for the closure. The online version of the almanac will cease next month.
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Dang it!
This is the Farmers’ Almanac, not the more familiar Old Farmer’s Almanac.
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone bought the rights and resumed publication on an updated financial model.
At the end of the article it said the Old Farmers Almanac is still being published.
I read that and was confused. Apparently, the Old Farmer’s Almanac is the new version, not the original.
Did you? This is the publication from Maine which has copied the Old Farmer’s Almanac for hundreds of years.
Old Farmer’s Almanac will continue to publish, as it has for 233 years, and the longest running periodical in the United States.
Got it reversed.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac began Publication on 1792.
The Farmer’s Almanac started in 1818.
I’ve always used the Old Farmer’s Almanac.
The one and only Old Farmer’s Almanac is alive and well. https://www.almanac.com
Accept no imposters
“Apparently, the Old Farmer’s Almanac is the new version, not the original.”
The Old Farmers’s Almanac is the older, original version.
I went fishing on those days, too.
Hope you had better luck than me!
Check
In my 65 years of living in Maine and NY I had no idea there were two separate Farmer’s Almanacs.
Wow.
My parents used to get it every year when I was growing up. Even when we were stationed overseas.
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